Electric Ninja

Quick post for today so I can get back to studying for final exams.

Since nothing on the stock wiring harness worked when the donor bike was purchased, I assumed getting the headlight, brake lights and blinkers functioning properly would be more than a weekend long process. However, after spending several hours diagnosing problems, varying from poor switch connections and splice jobs to corroded copper wire, every single light on the bike ended up working flawlessly.

I had to rewire the headlight 10 amp through the unused 10 amp ignition fuse because some of the old relays in the fuse box weren't useable after removing the starter switches.

Lights!:

Because I wanted to lower the center of mass on the bike and remake the busbars on the batteries with thicker copper sheets, I am now using fewer batteries and a 28 series 4 parallel battery orientation. At first I wasn't sure what to do with the newly opened space on the top battery pack. It just so happens that for the past few weeks I had been considering purchasing a Manzanita Micro PFC-20 9000 Watt charger to communicate with the Manzanita Micro battery management boards. The charger can turn down the output battery side power when the boards start to shunt. Even better, the charger would allow for more than half the charge time from my old charger, and it fits perfectly in the newly opened battery area. I am graduating next week and it sounded like the perfect graduation present to me. Weird huh? You thought your 1000 watt PC power supply was powerful? Try over 9000 Watts.

Manzanita Micro PFC-20: